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The Deacons, Too, Ride by Night; " If blood is going to be shed, we're going to let it run down Columbia Road -- all kinds. We are not going to send Negro blood down Columbia all by itself." The Deacons, Too, Ride by Night

By ROY REED ();

August 15, 1965,

, Section MAGAZINE, Page SM10, Column , words

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THERE usually is a touch of ceremony in a cross-burning by the Ku Klux Klan. A carload of Klansmen drives into a Negro neighborhood and selects a lawn, gets out and plants the cross in the dirt, sets it afire and then drives away in solemn satisfaction.

August 15, 1965

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